USC College Department of English


Emily Anderson

Assistant Professor of English

Contact Information
E-mail: ehanders@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-3744
Office: THH 436

 

Education

  • A.B. , Dartmouth College
  • Ph.D. , Yale University, 12/2004

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History

  • Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, 08/15/2004-  

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests
Emily Anderson works mainly in the long eighteenth century. Her areas of interest include the 18th- and 19th-century novel, 17th- and 18th-century drama, and women writers. More broadly, she is interested in performance studies, theater history, and theories of fiction. She has written extensively on British women writers who worked simultaneously as novelists and playwrights and on the links between performance and emotional expression in 18th-century literature and culture.
Research Specialties
18th-c drama, 18th-c novel, women writers, theater history, genre, performance studies

Publications

Book
Book Chapter
  • Anderson, E. H. (2007). She Stoops to Stratagem: A Comparative Approach to Eighteenth-Century Comedy, in Approaches to Teaching British Women Playwrights of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century. (Vol. Forthcoming 2009). New York: MLA.
Book Review
  • Anderson, E. H. (2006). Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Huntington Library Quarterly/Huntington Library. pp. 685-90.
Journal Article
  • Anderson, E. H. (2009). Autobiographical Interpolations in Maria Edgeworth's Harrington. ELH / Johns Hopkins University Press. Vol. 76.1 (Spring 2009), pp. 1-18.
  • Anderson, E. H. (2007). Novelty in Novels: A Look at What's New in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko. Studies in the Novel/University of North Texas UP. Vol. 39.1 (Spring 2007), pp. 1-16.
  • Anderson, E. H. (2006). Revising Theatrical Conventions in A Simple Story: Elizabeth Inchbald's Ambiguous Performance. Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies/Florida State UP. Vol. 6.1(2006), pp. 5-30.
  • Anderson, E. H. (2005). Staged Insensibility in Burney's Cecilia, Camilla, and The Wanderer: How a Playwright Writes Novels. Eighteenth-Century Fiction/McMaster University. Vol. 17.4 (July 2005), pp. 629-48.
  • Anderson, E. H. (2005). Performing the Passions in Eliza Haywood's Fantomina and Miss Betsy Thoughtless. The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation/Texas Tech UP. Vol. 46.1 (Summer 2005), pp. 1-15.

Honors and Awards

  • USC Provost's Award for Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2007-2008  
  • USC Parents' Association Teaching and Mentoring Award, Fall 2007   
  • British Academy Travel Grant, 2005  
  • Huntington Library Research Fellowship Recipient, Mellon Match Fellow, 2005  
  • USC or School/Dept Award for Teaching, General Education Teaching Award, Category V, Spring 2005   
  • Hemlow Prize for best new scholarship on Frances Burney, Burney Society, 2004  
  • Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanitistic Studies, 1999-2000  

Service to the Profession

Conferences Organized
  • Organizer, Long 18th-Century Seminar at the Huntington, Huntington Library, In cooperation with Felicity Nussbaum at UCLA, I have instituted, and continue to organize, a year long interdisciplinary seminar in eighteenth-century studies at the Huntington Library. For more information, email ehanders@usc.edu., 2006-  
Professional Memberships
  • American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2000-  
  • Modern Language Association, 2000-